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Main Authors: Pandey, Vivek, Mollaei, Amirhossein, Motee, Nader
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.20894
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author Pandey, Vivek
Mollaei, Amirhossein
Motee, Nader
author_facet Pandey, Vivek
Mollaei, Amirhossein
Motee, Nader
contents Robot localization is a fundamental component of autonomous navigation in unknown environments. Among various sensing modalities, visual input from cameras plays a central role, enabling robots to estimate their position by tracking point features across image frames. However, image frames often contain a large number of features, many of which are redundant or uninformative for localization. Processing all features can introduce significant computational latency and inefficiency. This motivates the need for intelligent feature selection, identifying a subset of features that are most informative for localization over a prediction horizon. In this work, we propose two fast and memory-efficient feature selection algorithms that enable robots to actively evaluate the utility of visual features in real time. Unlike existing approaches with high computational and memory demands, the proposed methods are explicitly designed to reduce both time and memory complexity while achieving a favorable trade-off between computational efficiency and localization accuracy.
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spellingShingle Efficient Greedy Algorithms for Feature Selection in Robot Visual Localization
Pandey, Vivek
Mollaei, Amirhossein
Motee, Nader
Robotics
Robot localization is a fundamental component of autonomous navigation in unknown environments. Among various sensing modalities, visual input from cameras plays a central role, enabling robots to estimate their position by tracking point features across image frames. However, image frames often contain a large number of features, many of which are redundant or uninformative for localization. Processing all features can introduce significant computational latency and inefficiency. This motivates the need for intelligent feature selection, identifying a subset of features that are most informative for localization over a prediction horizon. In this work, we propose two fast and memory-efficient feature selection algorithms that enable robots to actively evaluate the utility of visual features in real time. Unlike existing approaches with high computational and memory demands, the proposed methods are explicitly designed to reduce both time and memory complexity while achieving a favorable trade-off between computational efficiency and localization accuracy.
title Efficient Greedy Algorithms for Feature Selection in Robot Visual Localization
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.20894